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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« on: January 18, 2018, 01:44 PM »

Hi there ^^

A few days ago I saw this video, about how an engineering modification to how something was built, which seemed like a good idea at first, actually lead to a catastrophe.

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Living Room / Re: How can I blank out my laptop camera?

« on: December 10, 2017, 03:53 AM »

Hi ^^

How about wearing a Guy Fawkes mask?
I don't quite understand, you state youself that you "have to record yourself", yet you don't want to be seen ?_?

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Living Room / Re: Can you hear this silent GIF?

« on: December 08, 2017, 01:24 AM »

Hi there ^^

[…]... and now you do too 

-Edvard (December 08, 2017, 12:35 AM)

Hmm nope, sorry to disappoint but even after listening to the sound, I still don't hear anything when watching the .gif :p

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: December 06, 2017, 02:28 PM »

That was quick! Thanks a lot \o/

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: December 05, 2017, 05:40 AM »

Hello there :]

I've kept using this program every day at my workplace since it was made, and it works great, however there's a minor thing that's been bugging me for a while, so I thought I'd finally bring it up to see if that behaviour can be changed. It may just be me "misusing" the tool, but I thought I'd ask anyway :p

The thing is, I often need to copy the hostname of my current "target" computer from the "Variable" field so I can paste it into my browser to create a support ticket. So what I do is I usually double click the contents of the field to select it, and press Ctrl V. However, I often move the cursor away from the field before pressing Ctrl V, and I noticed that, if my cursor hovers any of the buttons (except the one at the bottom right in the status bar), then the text from the Variable field gets deselected (which then prevents from copying it).

Now, the obvious solution to that problem is that I shouldn't move the cursor away before pressing Ctrl V, but still, would it be possible to modify the program in such a way that having the cursor hover buttons doesn't deselect the text?

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« on: November 22, 2017, 06:21 AM »

I think the only thing that really bothers me with the new appearance of quoting boxes is that there is a big opening quotation mark, but no closing one.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: October 28, 2017, 05:36 AM »

While cleaning out an old Downloads folder from a backup drive I hadn't touched for a few years, I came across this image.

I leave you, without further comment, Maze Images.png:

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-Deozaan (October 24, 2017, 05:46 PM)

I don't get it. Is it not just some QR Code? (Tried using a few applications to decode it but they can't seem to decode it though…)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« on: September 29, 2017, 01:55 PM »

Hi there ^^

Lazy Game Reviews recently uploaded a video about the Story of Blue LEDs:

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General Software Discussion / Re: having some issue with cc cleaner

« on: September 21, 2017, 06:40 AM »

A newly registered user who asks a pretty generic and imprecise question in his/her first post… that might be my paranoia kicking in, but that raises a flag in my mind saying "most likely a spammer that will edit his/her post later to add links or something".

Hoping I'm wrong though… then how about you describe what seems to be the issue, please ?_?

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Living Room / Re: What's your favorite scientist ?

« on: September 19, 2017, 04:43 AM »

Hi there ^^

I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be mistaken but… shouldn't the title be "Who's your favo(u)rite scientist?" instead of "What's […]"?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using Windows 10 Administrative Shares

« on: June 19, 2017, 05:27 AM »

s/pros/skiddies.

-f0dder (June 15, 2017, 03:49 AM)

sed: -e expression #1, char 16: unterminated `s' command

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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now

« on: June 13, 2017, 12:07 AM »

    How would you rewrite that snippet in your current language?
[…]
    Yes

-wraith808 (June 12, 2017, 10:09 PM)

O_o?

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: June 03, 2017, 05:51 AM »

So... I suppose Anime Music Videos are OK too ? :]

Here's one with a song from Within Temptation:

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General Software Discussion / Re: help needed for batch change of jpg 'created time'

« on: May 19, 2017, 06:10 AM »

Hello there .o/

When I moved my files to this computer (x64 Windows 10 Home), I accidentally & unfortunately used a program that has erased almost all original info   and changed every jpg "Created Time".

-Curt (May 18, 2017, 05:36 PM)

The way I understand it, the "created time" is when space was first reserved on the drive to write the file to it. So it would be normal behaviour, not an issue related to the program you used to perform the copy.

Anyway…

Do 'you' know of a program that can do this? Or can & will 'you' write a script to make it happen?   

-Curt (May 18, 2017, 05:36 PM)

I actually remember making such a batch script a few years back, which made use of a freeware command line tool named smarttimestamp (available on Softpedia : http://www.softpedia...mart-Timestamp.shtml but you should probably use the latest version from https://sites.google...ralev/smarttimestamp )
I'll try to find it when I get back home (currently at work) and to remember to post it here :]

Edit : after re-reading the thread from back then (here, in french), you don't even need to make a whole script :

[Select]

smarttimestamp . *.jp* /cd-modified /ct-modified

shoud do it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 17, 2017, 09:22 AM »

Thanks for the update \o/

I actually use it almost every day at my workplace :}

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion of ignore feature

« on: May 12, 2017, 06:44 AM »

So huh… basically this is a teaser for some thread that will actually start tomorrow? ^^'
Well, also with an invitation to download said software for free, so it's not completely pointless for today, I suppose… thanks for the notification then

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 12, 2017, 06:39 AM »

I currently see two ways to handle the problem, one of which seems better in my opinion (and I'll explain why):

1 - check if the window is minimized or not when saving the settings
2 - check the desktop's "visible area" limits/coordinates when starting the program

I think option 2 is better because it doesn't only handle the case of the program being minimized, but also other cases such as the user having switched from a dual to single monitor desktop, for example someone with a laptop and an external monitor on its dock, who obviously doesn't have that second monitor available when travelling.

Of course, I suppose you could do 1 and 2.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 11, 2017, 10:52 AM »

Hi there .o/

I found some sort of "bug", which is actually something I've seen in several applications so far.

Here are the steps to reproduce:
- have the program's window opened, but not maximized
- reduce it to the task bar
- close the program by right-clicking its button in the taskbar and selecting "Close this window"

When you run the program again, its window doesn't show, even if you click the button on the taskbar (which would normally restore the window).

From what another developer told me a while back, that is related to how Windows treats window reduction: it just moves the window to coordinates "far, far away" outside of the desktop's resolution. Thus when you close the program, it saves those coordinates... and when it runs again, its window is always at a position outside of the desktop.

You still can make it visible again by maximizing the window (using the system menu which you can bring up with Alt + spacebar), but it's kinda not cool having to do so.
You could also edit the coordinates in the user.config file somewhere under "%localappdata%\TextManipulationUtility" to have it back into the visible area of the desktop… but it would be much better if the program checked whether or not the coordinates specified in there are visible or not according to the current desktop's resolution, and if not, reset the window's position.

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Living Room / Re: Get legal access to paywalled research and science papers free with Unpaywall

« on: April 19, 2017, 06:52 AM »

unpaywall.org doesn't resolve at this end of the globe.

-Shades (April 17, 2017, 10:03 AM)

Can you use other DNS servers, or are you behind the great firewall of China ? ^^'

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Bug: The forum thinks that all links are web links

« on: April 12, 2017, 06:24 AM »

Testing : ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1700920044/

Edit : Well, that one wasn't even recognized as a link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Adobe Acrobat - is there an alternative?

« on: April 11, 2017, 07:53 AM »

Hi there ^^

[…] combine several pdf pages into one pdf file.[…]

-cyberdiva (April 10, 2017, 08:56 AM)

For this type of stuff, I'd recommend using PDF Split and Merge Basic (aka "PDFsam"). Preferably version 2.x, since version 3 dropped the "visual composer" option, which was a pretty useful feature.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« on: April 05, 2017, 11:10 PM »

Hi there ^^

I'm surprised but it seems that Predator: Dark Ages hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Search in internet for .bos file extension files

« on: March 24, 2017, 05:30 AM »

Hi there ^^

Did you try filetype:bos in Google ?

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Living Room / Re: Cross-utilization?

« on: November 04, 2016, 06:36 PM »

Wait, what's the point to defrag a flash drive anyway?

I mean, it's not like fragmentation really has any effect on access times for non-mechanical drives... so unless perhaps you plan on making partitions on that drive… ?_?

However, if you still want an answer then: "Sure, why not? As long as you have a defrag program that can run on those devices and access the usb drives..."

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« on: November 04, 2016, 06:23 PM »

Hi there .o/

How to tell if your new Galaxy Note 7 is safe

-Arizona Hot (September 15, 2016, 02:06 PM)

BTW that reminded me of another "Public Service Announcement" :

How to spot Molex to SATA adapters that won't catch fire.